Take Some Down Time

By PChip | Category: Business Management |

Without giving yourself time to renew your strength you hurt yourself, maybe your family, your relationships, and definitely your business too!  If you don’t allow for recovery, and you get hit with another crisis, it can be demoralizing for you.

Today’s Business Tip:  Whether you work for yourself or someone else, think of Friday as a metaphor for recovery.  The concept of recovery is vital to our growth and you should strive to incorporate it in all that you do!

Give yourself Fridays.

In my blog entry this morning I mentioned that with your own business you’re the boss.  Part of the job of a boss is seeing to it that your employees (self included) get the downtime necessary to recover.  If you never give your employees a Friday, there’s going to be burnout or breakdowns.  To avoid the digi-scrap burnout syndrom, get a Friday attitude!

Today’s Mini-Tasker:  Stop working your business early today.  Turn off the computer, and experience FRIDAY!

Yabba-dabba-doo… it’s Friday - and it’s quitin’ time!

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  1. David September 7th, 2007 7:00 pm :

    Tip for Day7: Pricing - Look around - find comparable products that are selling well, and make that price the starting point. Look at your direct costs to make that sale and deduct them from the price. It had better be positive! What is left is what you have to meet the fixed overheads. If you’ve estimated those fairly accurately, you should get an idea of the kind of volume needed to make a profit (money for YOU)!

    Don’t forget the marketing effects of pricing - too cheap may be harder to sell than too expensive. Would you buy a bouquet of roses for $1 from someone you’ve never met before? Would you feel more comfortable paying $20?

    People will pay a fair price - if your work is good, ask for it.

    Have a GREAT weekend.

  2. Catherine October 1st, 2007 5:37 pm :

    Friday Down Time: Friday is the day I read all the newsletters that come in during the week (the one’s I can delay reading that is) and here is my little trick to make it more comfortable and relaxing to do the reading. I have a laptop with widescreen, when reading a PDF newsletter designed in portrait mode rather than landscape mode I use Adobe Reader to rotate the page, full screen, take to my couch and read it like any other book. So much more comfortable, see whole page at one time and still be able to read the text.

    Adobe steps:
    1) View > Rotate View > Clockwise
    2) View > Full Screen Mode(use esc to get out of full screen mode)

    Computer steps:
    1) Turn laptop sideways (make sure no cords, cables, attachements are in the way)
    2) Page Down/Up to change page

  3. PChip October 2nd, 2007 9:57 am :

    Catherine, I’ve never heard of this before. What a unique way of “looking at things” LOL. Thanks for the tip. I’m going to give this a try.

  4. David October 2nd, 2007 9:25 pm :

    I have my monitor like that at work 24/7.
    The LCD twists to a portrait format.

    You can read / write a whole page at 100%, it’s easier to read websites (less scrolling) and full email folders work better.

    Not so good if you do a lot of spreadsheets though.

    As a side point, an LCD at 90 degrees is very hard to read off-angle, making it a privacy feature for the cubicle-bound.

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